David Barclay is an associate professor in the Department of Oceanography at Dalhousie University, where his research asks what can be learned by just listening to the ocean. He was awarded the Medwin Prize by the Acoustical Society of America, the A.B. Wood Medal by the Institute of Acoustics, and is an associate editor for the Journal of the Acoustical Society - Express Letters, and the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering.